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Managing Yourself and Others During Crises: Key Leadership Visions, Approaches, and Dispositions to Survive and Thrive is about managing yourself and others during crisis situations like the recent unprecedented global pandemic that promulgated chaos in the operations of most human societies and institutions including family structures, educational procedures and practices, work relationships and settings, religious observances, governmental functions, protocols, and processes. This book provides insights based on the knowledge and experiences of practicing leadership and policy experts about keeping organizations functioning, as best as possible, during crises situations. They articulate practical approaches based on sound leadership research for ensuring that the people, things, and ideas of seminal societal institutions like education not only survive the crisis but also continue to thrive. Key leadership visions, approaches, and personal dispositions to cope with such monumental and unexpected changes are presented by chapter authors who not only studied crises situations but also personally lived through them and appropriately managed themselves and others using various comprehensive strategies, techniques, and coping mechanisms based on leadership best practices in educational organizations.
List of contents
Foreword
Suzanne Rosenblith
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Managing Yourself During Crises: Surviving and Thriving in the Education's Ever-evolving Open Social System of People, Things, and Ideas
Walter S. Polka and Monica J. VanHusen
Chapter 2. Transformational School Leadership: Hope and Healing During Times of Crisis
Peter R. Litchka
Chapter 3. Leadership and Sensemaking During Crises
Jeffrey Fila
Chapter 4. Leadership Moxie: Having the Courage, Determination, and Energy to Lead Schools During Crises and Beyond
Monica J. VanHusen
Chapter 5. Managing Others in Crises: Addressing the Personal, Professional, and Organizational Coping Needs of Educators
Walter S. Polka
Chapter 6. Rising Above the Chaos: Education Leaders and Policymaking During Crises
Roberto Leone
Chapter 7. Mindfulness Focus: A Key Crisis Management Imperative for School Leaders
Donna C. Kester Phillips and Alice A. Kozen
Chapter 8.The New Future is Up to Us: Perspectives of Managing Yourself and Others Based on Crisis Experiences
John E. McKenna, Walter S. Polka, and Monica J. VanHusen
Afterword
Tak Cheung Chan and Glen I. Earthman
Appendix
About the Editors and Contributors
About the author
Edited by Walter S. Polka; John E. McKenna and Monica J. VanHusen
